Gas prices, health care costs, and college tuition have gone up in part because of rising demand from consumers. If their income has gone down, how can these consumers create so much demand? Surely they must be spending less money if they have less income, and prices should instead be falling...

Sorry for the spam. Seems google is trying to make more money by allowing it.

Unfortunately I have had NO TIME to screen this stuff out (working about 80 hours a week). Alas my postings and commetnary has been lacking.

Anyway, the thing that gets me is how they selectively choose what they want to compare household income to. If I wanted, I could compare household income to the price of gold, tin, or housing or anything that has gone up much more than the average inflation rate.

That and i'm suspect of what exact time line they choose to use household income.